keffiyeh

keffiyeh

English

A man wearing a red and white keffiyeh.

Alternative forms

• kaffiyah
• kufiya
• kufiyah

Etymology

From Arabic كُوفِيَّة‎ (kūfiyya).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kə'fi-ə

Noun

keffiyeh (plural keffiyehs)

1. A headdress traditionally worn by some Arabs, also used as a scarf.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:shemagh

Translations

Arabian headdress

Arabic: كُوفِيَّة‎ f (kūfiyya), شُمَاغ‎ f (šumāḡ), غُترَة‎ (ar) f, حَطَّة‎ f (ḥaṭṭa), مَشَدَة‎ f (mašada) Dutch: arafatsjaal m French: keffieh (fr) m, kéfié (fr) m German: Kufija f, Kufiya f, Kefije f, Kefiye f, Palästinensertuch n, Palituch n (colloquial), Pali (de) n (colloquial) Hebrew: כאפיה \\ כָּפִיָּה‎ (he) f (kafíya)

Italian: kefiah (it) f, kefiyyah f Kyrgyz: куфия (ky) (kufiya) Persian: چفیه‎ (čafiye), دستمال یزدی‎ (dastmâl yazdi) Russian: куфи́я (ru) f (kufíja) Spanish: kufiyya f, palestina (es) f, pañuelo palestino m

Further reading

• keffiyeh on Wikipedia.Wikipedia